Scotland's Quotes
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Scotland's Quotes & Sayings
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Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
— Rory Bremner
The King's daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.
— Walter Traill Dennison
All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.
— Joe Jordan
Some of my best friends are books.
— A. Louise Robertson
I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.
— Steve Blake
The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
— Nicola Sturgeon
My first coherent thought was, It's raining. This must be Scotland.
— Diana Gabaldon
I think Scotland has some great stories.
— Billy Boyd
There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
— Ivor Cutler
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
— Gail Porter
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
— Loretta Lynn
I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
— Toby Stephens
I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.
— Rory Bremner
One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.
— Sara Sheridan
Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.
— Frankie Boyle
That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.
— Fergus McCann
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
— Sean Connery
There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
— Sean Connery
Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.
— Laurence Overmire
Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Father, will justice ever reign in Scotland?
— Douglas Bond
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.
— Kenny Anderson
Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
— Nicola Sturgeon
Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.
— Alex Ferguson
An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. - In Iona that is my heart's desire, Iona that is my love.
— Saint Columba
Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
— Nicola Sturgeon
I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
— French Stewart
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.
— Katharine Isabelle
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
— James Hogg
My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin ... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.
— Julianne Moore
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING
— Kate Forsyth
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
— Robert Carlyle
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
— Peter O'Toole
I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.
— Johann Lamont
Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.
— David Coleman
There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.
— Carwyn Jones
When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.
— Jack Nicklaus
It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match
— Barry Davies
There's no place on earth with more of the old superstitions and magic mixed into its daily life than the Scottish Highlands.
— Diana Gabaldon
Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
— Antonia Fraser
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
— Simon Heffer
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
— David Blanchflower
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.
— Ian Rankin
In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.
— Tom Hunter
The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
— Erin O'Connor
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.
— Nicola Sturgeon
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.
— Diana Gabaldon
Scotland's voice has to be heard
— Nicola Sturgeon
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
— Neil Oliver
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
— Arthur Balfour
But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.
— Alex Ferguson
Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you.
— June Ahern
Beautee eneuch to mak a world to dote.
— James I Of Scotland
The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.
— Stuart Haddon
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
— James I Of Scotland
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
— Sara Sheridan
My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
— Nicola Sturgeon
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
— Sean Connery
I'm a weaver. I'm what is connecting this world to the world you come from. My purpose is to show you your choices.
— Brynn Myers
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
— Winston S. Churchill
Aye, I see. Aye well, I suppose if I shall be in Scotland, and still married to you - then maybe 'when' doesna matter so much.
— Diana Gabaldon
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
— Rick Riordan
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
— Sean Connery
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
— Benjamin Franklin
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
— Janet Montgomery
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
— Mohamed El-Erian
I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.
— Peter Hambleton
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
— George Mackay Brown
I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.
— Susannah York
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
